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[ US /ˈvæst/ ]
[ UK /vˈɑːst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
    a huge wave
    the vast reaches of outer space
    the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains
    huge country estates
    at vast (or immense) expense
    the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization
    immense numbers of birds
    huge popular demand for higher education
    huge government spending

How To Use vast In A Sentence

  • The dozen pictures she had shot during a recent bath time -- including a few of Nora rinsing with a handheld shower sprayer -- were, for Cynthia, simply part of the vast photographic record she was keeping of her family's life. Lynn Powell: Pornographer or Soccer Mom?
  • Every large town will have quite a few horologers and jewelers with a vast selection of fancy watches displayed their windows, with huge price tags to go with them.
  • Perhaps it comes straight out of that party line dictionary that was written in a smoke-filled room in Sevastapol Street by the same faceless Provo apparatchik who a few years back advocated the practically endless use of the term 'securocrat'. Archive 2009-01-01
  • Stick us in a virgin paradise, and we create great honeycombed bureaucracies, vast bramble-fields of rules and regulations, ornate politburos filled with policymaking politicos, and, above all, tangled webs of power.
  • That'sbad for consumers, and it's bad for the vast majority of bankers andfinancial service professionals who do the right thing. State of the union 2012: full transcript of President Obama's speech
  • Except for the frequent conferences now in the new Forty-second Street offices that commanded a view of two rivers and a vast battledoor and shuttlecock of the city, it was the first time in all those years that stretched from the night at the Waldorf that they had sat thus tête-à-tête. Star-Dust
  • In effect the accuracy of the vast majority of the series' facts could not be disputed or questioned in any way.
  • For example, it was claimed that the study presented uniquely reliable evidence that simvastatin is not carcinogenic.
  • I'’m bored" is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say "I’m bored.". Louis C.K. 
  • The welfare state was not set up to support vast families or single mothers in inter-generational welfare dependency. We deserve a fair society, but it won't be created by a vendetta against the poor
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